DIBELS Next

https://dibels.org/dibels.html

DIBELS (Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills) is a standardized test to measure a student’s early literacy skills.  The test is given individually three times during the year.  These are short, one minute tests that monitor your child’s reading skills. 

DIBELS Next includes:

• First Sound Fluency ~ measures how well your child can identify initial sounds in words.

• Letter Naming Fluency ~ measures how many letters your child can identify in one minute.

• Phoneme Segmentation Fluency ~ measures how well your child can say the individual sounds in a given word.

• Nonsense Word Fluency ~ measures how well your child can read nonsense words that follow the phonemic pattern of actual words.

• Oral Reading Fluency ~ measures how many words your child can read in a minute.  Students are given a paragraph to read.

• Retell (for students in Grade 2-5) ~ measures the comprehension the student has after fluency and accuracy have been measured.